

About us
:
The National Institute
of Rehabilitation Training and Research (NIRTAR) is an autonomous body under the Ministry
of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India. It is located in a beautiful rural area
at Olatpur at a distance of 30 Kms. from Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.
It conducts three Bachelor Degree courses in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy,
Prosthetics and Orthotics, two Postgraduate courses in Occupational Therapy and
Physiotherapy affiliated to Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. It also has an accreditation
for DNB in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of National Board of Examination (NBE),
New Delhi. It also conducts short orientation courses, Continuing Medical Education
courses for rehabilitation professionals, awareness programmes for the functionaries of
Govt. and Non-Govt., Persons with disabilities and their relatives etc.
It has a hospital, wards with 100 beds, operation
theatres, x-ray and pathological investigations, physio-occupational therapy services,
clinical psychology and vocational counselling, speech and audiology, fabrication of
rehabilitation of aids and appliances. It provides total medical rehabilitation for the
persons with locomotor disabilities.
It has a subcentre at Dhenkanal, established ten
District Disability Rehabilitation Centres (DDRCs) in Bihar, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh,
Orissa and Composite Rehabilitation Centre (CRC) at Guwahati and served as a facilitator
in establishing Regional Spinal Injury Centre at Cuttack.
It conducts rehabilitation camps in a rural, remote
and interior areas of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarch, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya
Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and North-Eastern States to provide rehabilitation services
(fabrication and fitment, distribution of rehabilitation aids and appliances, surgical
camps) to the door steps of the persons with disabilities who can not go to bigger cities.
It has a good library, information and documentation
service facility to disseminate information in the fields of disability, rehabilitation
and related areas.
Provides consultancy
services to Govt. and Non-Govt.Organisation in setting/providing rehabilitation
services.